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L. C-AMMEN. 'COOLING SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION MOTORS.

APPLlCATION FILED JUNE 15. 1917.. 1 313,62i@D 'llV VEN TOR I Mia-W TTORNEV 50 of water between the jacket I and radiator means for use with motors installed in boats,

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.- LEon' CAMMEN, or nn'w YORK, 1w. "Y.

COOIJIIVG- SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION MOT-OBS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lPatentedAug. 19,1919 1 Application filed June 1917.. Serial No. 174,931.

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON, CAMMEN, citizen of the United States, residing at borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a newand useful Im provement in Cooling Systems for Internal-Combustion Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the water cooling systems of internal combustion motors and it has particular relation to such cooling because of the constant supply of water as a cooling medium. I

Briefly stated, my invention consists of a closed circulatory system including the cooling jacket of a motor and radiator therefor, and a secondary water cooling system, supplying continual fresh quotas of cooling Water to cool the radiator, this supply being taken from and returned to the body of water supporting the boat; and having regulating means-whereby the quantity of water introduced for the purpose of cooling the radiator may be varied, to thereby serve the purpose of providing a control of thermal conditions of the engine.

In the drawing Figure 1 1s a side sectlonal elevation of a boat with a motor therein and including my improved cooling system.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of the motor and the two pumps whereby the separate cooling units of the system are op erated, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation showing in detail a thermostatic means for regulating the flow of water in the system.

The drawing is more or' less diagrammatic to simply present the invention in an operative phase thereof without unnecessary details which arevfamlliar 1n marme gas en gine practice to those conversant with the art.

vessel at 1, having installed therein a cylinder-Q', with piston 3, and water jacket 4.

At 5' Ihave shown a conventional form' of radiator having communicating and return;

pipes 6 and .7, with a pump 8 to cause a flow 5. The pump rotor 1s mounted on aishaft'9 which is driven-by a belt for chain 10 from a pulley or sprocket 12 on the engine shaft 13.-

A casing 14c incloses the radiator 5 and is supplied with a flowo t water, as by pump Thus I have'ind'icated a form of boat or 15, and' pipe 16, the water supply being communicated' to said pump; as through an ori- 'tions' from the radiator.

It is known that in motor boat practice where there is a copious supply of cooling water for the engine. jacket, this his the fault, under certainconditions, of cooling the engine to excess, thereby interfering with its efiicient operation; and one of the purposes of my invention is to provide an efficient cooling system, wherein the degree of cooling may be regulated automatically, according to the engine temperatures; In other words, while the engine is starting its run,

the temperature of the jacket cooling water. should be at a higher degree than when the engine has been operating'for a certain period during which the cooling water has become heated up to a degree of temperature beyond which it should not rise, and then it is desirable that the jacket water be subjected to a greatercooling. influence.

Therefore I have provided a thermostatic controlling device 20, for controlling, the flow of Waterthrough the pipe 16.

Thus, when the engine has become warmed up suiiiciently to enable the temperature to j operate the thermostat 20, the valve 21 will thereby be opened and permit theflow of;

water through pipe 16 into casing 14. We

- then 'have the radiator 5 included in. the

jacket cooling system and also enable the water to} flow from pump ,15 through the ice casinglito cool theradiator. The degree of radiator ,Icooling which 'is thus efiected, is also by these means automatically regulated in consoriance with. the requirementsof the cooling service. v p

Variations may be resorted to within the spirit andscope of my said invention, and

. parts thereof nsed without others I claim i 1. In an internal combustion engine having a coollng acket and a radiator, means-v ,to circulate water-therethrougma radiator coolingsystem, means to eausea separate, continuous, non-circulatory flow of cooling Water over said radiator, and means,- governcd by variation in temperature of the circulatory Water, to. regulate the Volume of said continuous flow. g

2. In an internal combustion engine having a cooling jacket and a radiator, means to circulate a cooling liquid therethrough, a radiator cooling system, means to cause a separate, continuous, non-circulatory flow of cooling waberover said radiator, and means,

governed by variation in temperature of the circulatory liquid, to regulate the volume of said continuous flow. A 15 LEON OAMMEN.

Witnesses:

Y F. W. BARKER,

L. 'MosKoWrrz. 

